{"id":76622,"date":"2011-12-24T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76622\/recommended-read\/"},"modified":"2011-12-24T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T17:58:12","slug":"recommended-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76622\/recommended-read\/","title":{"rendered":"A Recommended Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been using the Kindle app<\/a> to read ebooks on my computer lately.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty handy.\u00a0 It lets you dim the page a bit so you don\u2019t burn your eyeballs out so badly when you\u2019re reading a lot on a computer monitor.\u00a0 It also lets you switch things around where you can read white text on a black background too.<\/font><\/p>\n

I just\u00a0finished reading On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience<\/a> by Henry David Thoreau.\u00a0 It can be found at Manybooks.net<\/a> in ebook format for free.\u00a0 Manybooks indexes Project Gutenberg\u2019s free\u00a0ebooks into an easily searchable database.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got some good stuff.<\/font><\/p>\n

Thoreau\u2019s On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience was kind of eye opening for me.\u00a0 I was surprised by his libertarianly tinged socialist outlook on things.\u00a0 In this writing, he promotes the idea of\u00a0protesting needless wars by not paying taxes.\u00a0 He even describes his experience of being jailed for refusing to pay taxes.\u00a0 But then he also mentions that he always pays the highway tax because he realizes it is justified and see\u2019s it as his cooperative duty toward his fellow man.<\/font><\/p>\n

It was interesting to see a snapshot from a time in American history when slavery was still a debatable subject.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure our descendants will one day get the same eerie feeling that I felt, when they read back on our blogs discussing climate change, evolution, and the right to health care.\u00a0 That\u2019s assuming any of them give a damn about what we had to say about things.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably just as likely that we\u2019ll all be written off as morons from a shameful time in American history.<\/font><\/p>\n

It was interesting to see Thoreau bitching about many of the same problems that we face today with government bureaucrats and their endless hunger for bribes.\u00a0 It\u2019s scary to think that we\u2019ll probably never fully escape greedy politicians.<\/font><\/p>\n

Below are a few interesting quotes that I bookmarked along the way:<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cLet your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.\u201d<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cFor it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.\u201d<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cConfuscius said:\u00a0 If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame.\u201d<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cIf a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies, and so a man.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been using the Kindle app to read ebooks on my computer lately.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty handy.\u00a0 It lets you dim the page a bit so you don\u2019t burn your eyeballs out so badly when you\u2019re reading a lot on a computer monitor.\u00a0 It also lets you switch things around where you can read white text […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}